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P. 90. Mixing up of Jainism sometimes with Buddhism and sometimes with Brāhmaṇism.
Pārsvanātha was contemporaneous with other great men of the time. Two centuries later lived Mahāvīra, who, like Buddha, was of the royal caste.
In several features Jainism differs from Buddhism ; it has never left India, and is still a quasi sect. It has a form of worship; ineffable bliss is the goal of Jainism, not nirvana ; both lay stress on morality, charity, purity, patience, courage, contemplation, knowledge; both get rid of caste, and are atheistic. The Jains number one and-a half million ; they enjoin mercy to all animated beings, and place a cloth over their mouths to save the lives of insects; they have a considerable literature, and an order of priesthood.
347 WILKINS, W. J. Modern Hinduism. Second Edition. Calcutta and Simla, [1900.].
Pp. 347-351. The Jains, Their leading tenets and tenets distinguishing them from the main body of the Hindus-Jiva and AjivaYatis and Srāvakas–The rituals of the Jains-The Jains a sect of the Buddhists-Svetāmbaras and Digambaras.
348 JASTROW, MORRIs. The Study of Religion. London, 1901.
Pp. 114, 233. Jainism follows Buddhism-Buddhism and Jainism give birth to other forms of religion.
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